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nouveau riche

/noo-voh -reesh; French noo-voh -reesh/US // ˈnu voʊ ˈriʃ; French nu voʊ ˈriʃ //UK // (ˌnuːvəʊ ˈriːʃ, French nuvo riʃ) //

新富,新富豪,新富贵,新贵

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural nou·veaux riches [noo-voh -reesh; French noo-voh -reesh]. /ˈnu voʊ ˈriʃ; French nu voʊ ˈriʃ/.

    • : a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.

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Examples

  • These have the pared-down, Pre-Modernist look of Art Nouveau.

  • The day we were supposed to shoot this, the Beaujolais Nouveau comes out.

  • The façade bore all the trendy trappings of the Art Nouveau movement that swept across the European continent.

  • Horses may be the nouveau eco-friendly delivery van in some parts, but apparently not in big cities.

  • In nouveau hipster and increasingly expensive Brooklyn, nearly a quarter of people live below the poverty line.

  • Voyez l'efficace du sacrement: le lendemain matin, il mande M. de Biancourt et moy, et de nouveau il recommence sa harangue.

  • And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche.

  • A riche hil in the next line appears to have no special significance.

  • On n'y apprend rien de nouveau, et cependant il attache et intresse.

  • He really is a typical nouveau riche out of a novel (not one of your novels, darling).